LaTeX has wide support for many of the world’s scripts and
languages, provided through the core babel package, which
supports pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX. The
polyglossia package provides similar support with the latter
two engines.
This section does not cover that support. It only lists the core
LaTeX commands for creating accented characters. The
\capital... commands shown here produce alternative forms for
use with capital letters. These are not available with OT1.
Below, to make them easier to find, the accents are all illustrated with lowercase ‘o’.
Note that \i produces a dotless i,
and \j produces a dotless j.
These are often used in place of their dotted counterparts when they are
accented.
\" ¶\capitaldieresisö Umlaut (dieresis).
\' ¶\capitalacuteó Acute accent.
\. ¶ȯ Dot accent.
\= ¶\capitalmacronō Macron (overbar) accent.
\^ ¶\capitalcircumflexô Circumflex (hat) accent.
\` ¶\capitalgraveò Grave accent.
\~ ¶\capitaltildeñ Tilde accent.
\b ¶o̲ Bar accent underneath.
Related to this, \underbar{text} produces a bar under
text. The argument is always processed in LR mode
(see Modes). The bar is always a fixed position under the baseline,
thus crossing through descenders. See also \underline in
Over- and Underlining.
\c ¶\capitalcedillaç Cedilla accent underneath.
\d ¶\capitaldotaccentọ Dot accent underneath.
\H ¶\capitalhungarumlautő Long Hungarian umlaut accent.
\k ¶\capitalogonekǫ Ogonek. Not available in the OT1 encoding.
\r ¶\capitalringo̊ Ring accent.
\t ¶\capitaltie\newtie\capitalnewtieTie-after accent (used for transliterating from Cyrillic, such as in the
ALA-LC romanization). It expects that the argument has two characters.
The \newtie form is centered in its box.
\u ¶\capitalbreveŏ Breve accent.
\v ¶\capitalcaronǒ Háček (check, caron) accent.